Three-time Ace Bowler Greg Olsen fills in as the network’s lead NFL examiner.
Close by in depth host Kevin Burkhardt, journalists Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi and rules expert Mike Pereira, he brings watchers FOX Sports’ top game every week during the season.
Following retirement, Olsen set out on his new kid on the block broadcast season in 2021 with Burkhardt and columnist Pam Oliver.
In early 2020, during the offseason before his last season with the Seattle Seahawks, Olsen likewise collaborated with Burkhardt to call five XFL games for FOX Sports.
| Olsen with the Carolina Panthers in 2019 | |||||||
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| Position: | Tight end | ||||||
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| Born: | March 11, 1985 Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. | ||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||
| Weight: | 255 lb (116 kg) | ||||||
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| High school: | Wayne Hills (Wayne, New Jersey) | ||||||
| College: | Miami (FL) (2003–2006) | ||||||
| NFL draft: | 2007 / Round: 1 / Pick: 31 | ||||||
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In 2017, while playing for the Carolina Pumas, Olsen turned into the third player in FOX Sports’ set of experiences to act as game expert – following Matt Hasselbeck (2014) and Marcus Allen (1994). He joined Burkhardt, examiner Charles Davis and Oliver to call the Week 11 Rams at Vikings matchup. In 2019, while as yet playing for the Carolina Pumas, Olsen collaborated with in depth broadcaster Kenny Albert and correspondent Lindsay Czarniak for the Week 7 NFL matchup between the Arizona Cardinals and the New York Monsters.
Olsen likewise filled in as a NFL studio examiner for the network’s inclusion of Super Bowl LIV in Miami.
Olsen was chosen by the Chicago Holds on for the 31st generally pick in the 2007 NFL Draft out of the College of Miami. He enjoyed four seasons with the Bears prior to being exchanged to the Carolina Pumas 2011. Olsen stayed with the Jaguars through the finish of the 2019 season, assumed a key part in the Pumas’ Super Bowl 50 billet against the Denver Horses and proceeded to become one of the most productive tight finishes in NFL history.
The three-time Ace Bowler and double cross second-group All-Star positions fifth all-time among tight finishes with 742 gatherings and 8,683 yards. From 2014 to 2016, he recorded 1,000 getting yards each season, turning into the principal tight end in history to record three successive 1,000-yard getting seasons. He left the Jaguars as the establishment’s unequaled driving tight end in getting yards (6,463), gatherings (524) and 100-yard getting games (10). Olsen sits second among Jaguars tight finishes in getting scores at 39 and third in getting yards and gatherings.
Olsen two times was named a finalist for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Grant. Enlivened by the difficulties confronting his child, T.J., who was born with a serious intrinsic heart deformity, Olsen and his wife, Kara, established the HEARTest Yard Program to offer help and administrations to those confronting comparative conditions.
A Wayne, N.J., local, Olsen went to the College of Miami. He and Kara live in Charlotte, N.C., with their two children and little girl.